Clipper ship captain : Daniel McLaughlin and the Glory of the Seas /
Michael Jay Mjelde's Glory of the Seas, a history of Donald McKay's last great clipper ship, was the first volume in Mystic Seaport's American Maritime Library Series. In this new book he brings us the biography of her most accomplished captain, Daniel McLaughlin. A native of Nova Sco...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Palo Alto, CA :
Glencannon Press,
1997.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Pacific maritime history series ;
no. 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- Sailing day
- The master
- Civil War and post-war
- Glory of the Seas at San Francisco
- Dead horse and blood money
- A record passage
- The second round voyage
- The clam fleet
- Queenstown, Le Havre and New York
- The Cape Horn road
- A close call
- Disaster averted
- Winter, North Atlantic
- A memorable voyage
- Cape Horn winter
- From the line to San Francisco
- Lay-up and retirement.